Nick Fraser, editor of the BBC's documentary series Storyville, offers a parting shot on the Sundance Film Festival in the UK's Observer It's not something the Park City chamber will likely include in a brochure.

"Sundance consists of a number of ski-lodge hotels, some of them less than glamorous, and a bijou high street packed with shops that sell ski wear and highly priced bad art. Parties take place in various bars stocked for the festival with a lavishness that is un-Mormon. Deals are done in the over-priced restaurants... ."

It could have been worse, the Guardian's Jeremy Kay found the Sundance lineup to be "the worst in recent memory."

Fraser witnesses a crass deal between a buyer and Francisco Bello for Salim Baba, left. But after seeing the Hunter S. Thompson, right, documentary, Gonzo, he ends the article feeling practically sentimental about Sundance.

"No one expects anything good in America right now. That's why people like Hunter matter so much. They tell us to piss on adversity, not to be stoical, but to enjoy ourselves."